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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert.

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

But thanks to the tenacity of Umesh and his team, as well as employing some excellent enterprise sales techniques that we can all learn from, several dozen projects were finally green-lit, with the first breaking ground in February of 2018. I packed some Imodium and a sleeping bag, and I was on my way to Kathmandu.

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16 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

I have taken my hobby of getting good deals from flea markets, thrift stores and yard sales and selling them online, and turned it into a full time gig. Thanks to Mawano Kambeu, Dot Com Zambia. I now teach other people to do the same so they can enjoy their hard work and benefits of being an entrepreneur!

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

ConversionXL

If you want people to buy your message, ask for the sale in the situation that supports your claims. The display that offered less choice made many more sales — in fact, only 3 per cent of jam tasters at the 24-flavour stand used their discount voucher, versus 30 per cent at the six-flavour stand. Overdo it and you lose the sale.

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